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Good Deed Leads To $10,000 Lottery Prize For Cedar Rapids Man

Michael Devlin Wins Top Prize Playing the
"Boggle™" Scratch Game

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DES MOINES, Iowa - A Cedar Rapids man won the
ninth out of 13 top prizes of $10,000 playing the
lottery's "Boggle™" instant-scratch game.

Michael Devlin, 54, said it all started as he was
helping out his daughter by replacing her windshield
wipers. While he was at the Hawkeye Convenience
Store, 250 16th Ave. in Cedar Rapids, he went ahead
and topped off her car's gas tank and picked up a
few scratch tickets for himself.

"So I thought, 'Well, I'll scratch one of these
things off and see what happens,'" Devlin said. "I
did and I thought, 'Well, I won $10.'"

Devlin took a second look and got quite a shock.

"There's more zeros there. I won $10,000!" Devlin said.

Devlin then went home to share the good news with
his wife, Diane.

"Went home about three blocks away and I'm out in
the street just screaming," Devlin laughed. "The
wife says, 'What in the heck is the matter with
you?'"

He told Diane the news and then woke up his children
and let them in on the good news, too.

Devlin, who is an iron worker at ADM Dry Grind in
Cedar Rapids, claimed his prize Monday at the Iowa
Lottery's regional office in Cedar Rapids.

Devlin said he's got a pretty good idea where the
winnings will go.

"It worked out good. Little girl just went to
college and I told her I'd help her out," Devlin said.

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